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This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters. It asks: if you make sense of fiction by identifying with one main character, how do you handle two...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-17
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This book explores the significance of the now-lost pavilion built in the Buckingham Palace Gardens in the time of Queen Victoria for understanding experiments in British art and architecture at the outset of the Victorian era. It introduces the curious history of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-15
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This book considers Keats’s major poems as exercises in Romantic historicism. The poetry’s rich allusiveness represents Keats’s effort to reclaim the British canon for Cockney revisionism, and reveals Keats characteristically invoking the past to define his contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-15
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What is it for poetry to be serious and to be taken seriously?What is it to be open to poetry, exposed to its force, attuned to what it says and alive to what it does? These are important questions that call equally on poetry and philosophy. But poetry and philosophy,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-13
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What is it for poetry to be serious and to be taken seriously?What is it to be open to poetry, exposed to its force, attuned to what it says and alive to what it does? These are important questions that call equally on poetry and philosophy. But poetry and philosophy,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-13
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Tragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if not several. Yet such themes can also be found in Shakespearian plays which are classed as comedies, or histories. What is it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-13
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Tragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if not several. Yet such themes can also be found in Shakespearian plays which are classed as comedies, or histories. What is it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-13
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Balzac’s Cane is an English translation of Delphine de Girardin’s 1836 novella, La Canne de M. de Balzac, which centers around a protagonist named Tancred Dorimont, a brilliant young man plagued by his devastating good looks. In a social context in which appearance is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-04-13
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Since Forster’s death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf’s terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-12
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Einerseits gehörte Alfred Döblin nicht zu jener Gruppe von Autoren, die das Exil als einen ‚Weg ohne Rückkehr‘ oder gar als Chance erfuhr. Er ist andererseits aber auch nicht zu jenen Schriftstellern zu zählen, die in der Emigration völlig verstummten. Aufgrund seiner...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-12
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Ein Vierteljahrhundert nach den demokratischen Transformationen in Mittel- und Osteuropa ziehen polnische, österreichische, deutsche, ungarische und tschechische Literaturforscher eine Zwischenbilanz über die Bedeutung dieser politischen, sozialen und kulturellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-12
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This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual places in America. The authors discussed in the book (Vasily Aksyonov,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-11
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Dieses Buch beleuchtet das Motiv der Völlerei in der englischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit. Der Autor untersucht, wie die klassische Todsünde zur Beschreibung des Eigenen und Fremden genutzt wird, um durch Selbstüberhöhung und Fremdabwertung die nationale Identität zu...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-11
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This book discusses D. H. Lawrence’s interest in, and engagement with, transport as a literal and metaphorical focal point for his ontological concerns. Focusing on five key novels, this book explores issues of mobility, modernity and gender. First exploring how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-07
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The first full biography of a neglected genius and one of the great Modernists, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout‘I would like to have done anything as good as David Jones has done’ Dylan ThomasAs a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-04-06
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This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock’s most significant published articles on reasoning and argument. In seven new chapters he updates his thinking in the light of subsequent scholarship. Collectively, the papers articulate a distinctive position in...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-04-06
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These eight texts deal with different perspectives on the relation between the regional short story, modernism and space. Seven of them concentrate on short prose (the short story and chronicle) and one deals with the novel. Four of them consider canonical pre-modernist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-06
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In the early nineteenth century, the public lecture emerged as one of the Anglo-American world's most important cultural forms. On both sides of the Atlantic, audiences and performers transformed a cultural practice with origins in the medieval cloister into an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-06
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Der Band entwirft Umrisse einer neuen Literaturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Aktualität des 19. Jahrhunderts geht weit über die geteilten Erfahrungen radikaler Modernisierungsschübe, sozialer Unsicherheiten und globaler Erschließungsbewegungen hinaus. Sie...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-04-05
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A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl' and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-04-04
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